Windows Vista mousemats/mousepads

After 21 gruesome days of email spam from over 630 entries, I finally received the mousemats sent from the great land of royalties and teas, thanks to James Senior from Microsoft UK.

The winners have been chosen using a monkey and many fortune cookies which has inside the names of the people who entered the giveaway. Before the drawing actually started, the monkey climbed into the air-vent and escaped. So in despair, a PHP random selection script was used to fairly draw the winners. Here they are:

David Old

Robert Griffin

Greg Pishko

Bernd Grüner

John Fewer

Greg Wadden

James Schmidt

Mauro Sagratella

Dan McCoy

Gareth Waite

Scott Lewis

Kutter Ross

Vester I. Thacker, Jr.

Tom Brickman

Mary Ford

Vaidas Kascenas

Herbert N Swearengen III

Kevin Lucca

Tom Bastiaanse

Corey Emmons

If your name was on the list, be very afraid. Because I’m going to email you in the next few days to get your shipping address. If your name wasn’t on the list, don’t start whining yet.

Beginning Ajax with ASP.NET

Unlike the Vista mousemat competition, if you don’t win this, you can actually go and buy the book. But nevertheless, if you do win this, you’re going to be drawing pastel rounded corners with big input fields and refresh-less pages in no time. Thanks to one of the co-authors, Paul Glavich.

There are only 2 winners for this, so this was comparatively easier than the mousemats. I write everyone’s name on a piece of paper, and burned it. Then I looked through the ashes to see who’s names remain. Sadly to say, there wasn’t much left. So I ended up using a PHP script again. I tried to stop my reliance on technology, really, I tried.

Stephen Taylor

Sanu Simon Philip

To those two people, look out for an email from me and many Nigerians in the next few days. To everyone else, you may begin whining now.

Shipping for all this is probably going to cost greater than the GDP of some small island nations. Bummer. But all hope is not lost. I hope in the future I can do many more giveaways with bigger and better prizes.